[497] Built in 1749 by the Peishwa Balajee Bajee Rao.
[498] "The cultivation of the chinchona-trees may succeed in localities not appearing to offer exactly the same conditions regarding climate and the general character of the country as are peculiar to their native forests."—Report by Dr. Brandis (Supplement to the Calcutta Gazette, August 31, 1861), p. 467.
[499] "Mr. McIvor deserves great credit for the manner in which he has laid out the garden. It is both a beautiful pleasure-ground, and a valuable public institution for the improvement of indigenous, and the naturalisation of foreign plants; and it has been formed from the commencement by Mr. McIvor, with great industry and artistic skill, out of a rude ravine."—Minute by Sir Charles Trevelyan, Feb. 24th, 1860.
[500] Cleghorn, p. 318.
[501] Cleghorn, p. 180 and 359.
[502] I have supplied Mr. McIvor with the following works on the chinchona-plants:—
- 1. Weddell's Histoire Naturelle des Quinquinas.
- 2. Howard's Nueva Quinologia de Pavon.
- 3. Poeppig's Notes on the Chinchona Trees and Barks of Huanuco.
- 4. Karsten's Medicinal Chinchona Barks of New Granada.
- 5. Markham's Report of a Visit to the Chinchona Forests of Caravaya.
- 6. Spruce's Expedition to procure Seeds and Plants of C. succirubra.
- 7. Pritchett's Report on the Chinchona Plants of Huanuco.
- 8. Cross's Report on the C. Condaminea.
- 9. Junghuhn's Cultivation of the Quina-tree in Java, 1859.
- 10. Botanical Descriptions of Species of Chinchonæ now growing in India.
[503] Order of the Madras Government, July 3rd, 1861, No. 1328.
[504] Secretary to the Government of India, to the Secretary to the Government of Fort St. George, Dec. 9th, 1861.
[505] I sent a smaller parcel of C. Condaminea seeds in a letter, which arrived first at Ootacamund, in the middle of February. Sixteen days after sowing, twelve seeds were found to have germinated; and early in March 138 seedlings were up, or 30 per cent. of the total number of seeds sown. The large parcel of seeds arrived at Ootacamund on March 4th, and were sown at once. See p. 570.